rural health

The proposal includes creating financial incentives for critical access hospitals to have emergency and labor and delivery departments, expanding on behavioral telehealth and creating healthcare workforce scholarships, among others.

The state’s priorities include improving access to care, building up its health workforce, and using technology to improve chronic disease management and bring care closer to home.

The Wyoming Department of Health is going around the state asking for input on how to spend its share of the Rural Health Transformation Program.

This comes as the number of rural hospitals and OB/GYNs delivering babies is dwindling.

The grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust funds Virtual Crisis Care, a new program connecting Wyoming law enforcement officers with licensed mental health professionals in real time.

Idaho and Wyoming are investing in education programs so these physicians can do higher risk baby deliveries.

A new study found that rural residents are more likely to have preexisting health conditions that make them sensitive to heat, like asthma or heart disease.

The Evanston-based Maternal Health Connections launched this month and provides prenatal and postpartum care to the community.

The Wyoming Department of Health is asking for over $18 million in its supplemental budget request. A majority of the funds would go toward increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates in an attempt to retain physicians.

A new report shows that nearly half of metro areas in the U.S. – including some in the Mountain West – have only one or two health systems controlling all inpatient care. Experts say that’s driving up the prices that patients have to pay.